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Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment
The establishment of a accreditation body for gerontology degree programs was seen as disruptive. Many key leaders were against creating such a body and wanted this to be delayed or to never happen. In 2012, the AGHE Accreditation Task Force was established with a Competency Work Group and an Organi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680494/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.159 |
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description | The establishment of a accreditation body for gerontology degree programs was seen as disruptive. Many key leaders were against creating such a body and wanted this to be delayed or to never happen. In 2012, the AGHE Accreditation Task Force was established with a Competency Work Group and an Organization Work Group..There have been 5 programs evaluated with a number of schools/university currently in process. The task force filed documents for creating a legal entity and obtaining non-profit status for the new Accreditation for Gerontology Education Council. The Task Force developed the dimensions for program evaluation based on the Competencies and shared information with AGHE members. The Task Force obtained start-up funding for the organization and identified the first programs for accreditation and has been providing outreach and guidance to new programs. There is continual refinement of the process. |
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spelling | pubmed-86804942021-12-17 Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment Sterns, Harvey Ruby, Joseph Innov Aging Abstracts The establishment of a accreditation body for gerontology degree programs was seen as disruptive. Many key leaders were against creating such a body and wanted this to be delayed or to never happen. In 2012, the AGHE Accreditation Task Force was established with a Competency Work Group and an Organization Work Group..There have been 5 programs evaluated with a number of schools/university currently in process. The task force filed documents for creating a legal entity and obtaining non-profit status for the new Accreditation for Gerontology Education Council. The Task Force developed the dimensions for program evaluation based on the Competencies and shared information with AGHE members. The Task Force obtained start-up funding for the organization and identified the first programs for accreditation and has been providing outreach and guidance to new programs. There is continual refinement of the process. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8680494/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.159 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Sterns, Harvey Ruby, Joseph Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title | Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title_full | Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title_fullStr | Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title_full_unstemmed | Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title_short | Good Trouble Along the Winding Road: Disruption and Accomplishment |
title_sort | good trouble along the winding road: disruption and accomplishment |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680494/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.159 |
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